As the fight dragged on, Lucy started to get annoyed with Hasuke's constant evasion of her attacks. The two were standing on the rooftop, the moonlight illuminating the vast battered landscape and buildings of Kawagoe. Hasuke was still sleeping, his body standing up straight but his shoulders and head limp. Lucy was getting tired a bit. Not that she was tired in physical sense as Eclipses never get tired, but she knew she was burning through her reserves with each senzai amplified attacks and techniques.
"Darn... I'm 25% left on gas... I took out half of it on my Territory and a quarter of it on this fool... Even worse, I have no idea what he'll pull off if he wakes up... I gotta go all out now," Lucy says as she charges up another technique. Purple glowing aura erupts underneath Lucy as she points her palm towards Hasuke. Lucy thinks to herself, "This is a powerful technique that takes out 5% of my Senzai Reserves with each usage. It's not a physical attack, but I think I can override his already sleeping brain to let him let me hit him".
With a powerful burst of energy flying through Hasuke, causing the tiles of the roof to fall of and the air to squash away, Lucy used her technique,
"Dreamweaving:
Mind Warping "
Even though Hasuke's body was going through Oneiric Sleep which was being handled by his own Senzai Art, Lucy's Mind Warping forced his mind to "wake up" as she took utter control of his brain. Unlike 'Chained Dreams', which literally overrides a victim's mind granted it the victim is weakened enough, Mind Warping is a much more potent technique as it grants Lucy the permission to forcefully control Hasuke's body.
Suddenly, Hasuke's eyes opened up, glowing purple irises. His body stood still. Though spiritually sleeping now, Lucy now had manipulated his physical body to her own terms: a truly powerful technique by this Eclipse.
Lucy instantly teleported infront of Hasuke as she grabbed his chin making him look down at her. "Not going to lie, you're actually good looking... Too bad I gotta finish you and that woman off too," Lucy says as she looks towards Yoru who was standing a few blocks away on a rooftop next to Hikaru.
"These meatbuns are totally succulent, Hikaru! Try some!", Yoru says as her skin beams in satisfaction of the taste of the food. As Hikaru is about to grab one for himself, a mind controlled Hasuke instantly flies towards Yoru punching her away, crashing her down from the roof into the road. Hikaru immediately grabbed ahold of his sword but before he could do it, Hasuke slashes at Hikaru's arm with a karate chop infused with Senzai. A deep aching wound opens up at Hikaru's forearm.
"ARGHHHHHHHH!", Hikaru yells grabbing a fistful of his arm flesh drenched in blood. The hit was extremely powerful causing shockwaves of pain to erupt through Hikaru's body. He sat down on his knees wincing in pain.
Lucy also jumped across rooftops and landed next to Hasuke, a hand on his shoulder as she commented, "Nice job. You're exceptional. With you in my and our master's cards, we can truly take the PPA down".
Hikaru looked up, a furious glare in his eye as he speaks up, "The PPA will always come out on top against freaks of nature like you! Let Professor Hasuke go!". Lucy's eyes narrowed down on Hikaru's form as she scoffed and said, "I don't think I will-"
Right before she could finish her sentence, Lucy felt an ominous presence standing at the rooftop near them. It was Yoru, a small graze from Hasuke's punch evident on her right cheek. She clenched her fist which swirled in a wispy white aura and yelled enthusiastically, "Unfortunately, I'm a bad match for you!".
WHACK! THOOP!
In blinding speeds, Yoru's fist connected with Hasuke's face, a sickening crack. Behind her multiple sonic booms erupted causing every building behind her to collapse. The sheer speed of her attack caused an airburst flying through Lucy and Hasuke as the clouds nearby dissipated.
FW-SHOOM!
Hasuke's body recoiled, flying back at uncontrollable speeds as it crashed through multiple buildings, tumbling within the heap of debris around him.
Yoru saw the display in awe and satisfaction as she turned to Lucy. Lucy looked at the scene in sheer horror. This much strength? She had messed with a Director and now she was going to get the beating of a lifetime.
"Don't worry I won't be the one putting you in your place. But he will," Yoru said as she air kissed at Lucy in a mocking tone. Lucy turned around and saw her doom.
Hasuke stood in mid air, a fist clenched by him. The wind wheezed around them. His face was serious and he had finally woken up and was free from Lucy's control.
"The thing is, I can mess with the Souls of any human being. That punch that I did? It simply shook Hasuke's inner soul to wake up and take back the control he needed over his body. As I told you, I'm a bad match for you~ mwah~", Yoru says as she giggles in trepidation.
Suddenly before Lucy could react, Hasuke grabbed her throat and stated flying way up, causing sonic booms behind him which echoed throughout Kawagoe and the neighbouring towns and cities. As Hasuke climbed up in altitude reaching a respectable 20,000 ft he released Lucy.
"It's over," Hasuke says as he charges straight at Lucy and punches her down. Then he flew below her and kicked her back up and the flew up again and grabbed her shoulders. Each hit causing Lucy to grimace in pain. Hasuke was getting stronger. He had surpassed Lucy.
"N-not over yet!", Lucy whimpers as she creates a rope and wraps it around Hasuke's waist from the back and suddenly kicks face first into Hasuke in mid air.
Hasuke's face titled backwards as it absorbed the hit, a small bleeding emerged from his forehead. He suddenly started pushing his head infront overpowering Lucy's kick. Hasuke then grabbed her leg and then her shoulder as he began to tug at her leg.
Lucy's eyes immediately widened as she saw the gruesome display of strength Hasuke was showing. Yes, she could keep regenerating as long as her Senzai was there, which it was, but Hasuke seemed to never stop.
CRACK!
With a pop and a crack of Lucy's femur, Hasuke rips her leg off as her punches her back down. As Lucy falls down mid air, Hasuke perched on her body, wrapping his legs around her waist as he raised his fists. Lucy raised her arms up in a cross, but it was hopeless. Hasuke's punched shattered through her arms as it started punching her face and chest. At the same time, the two kept descending mid air down to Kawagoe.
WHAM! CRACK! THUD! KRK!
Grotesque sounds erupted from Lucy's body as Hasuke continued mutilating Lucy's face and and body keeping his grip on her waist tight through his legs. Lucy was regenerating her hits, but a single Hasuke's punch landed within 0.001s every time making it difficult for her to overpower the sheer injury overload with her regeneration.
THUMP!
As the two descended a 50 meters above Kawagoe, Hasuke immediately slammed his fists on her chest which made Lucy crash down onto the pavement as her body cracks. Her body aching desperate to regenerate her wounds quickly and now escape as the tide of the battle changed quickly.
As Lucy stood up, her face half healed, her leg healing back again she looked up at Hasuke and her eyes filled with dread. Her heartbeat slowing down as she tried to take in the situation.
"Get ready for a magnificent finish, Hikaru," Yoru comments softly in a serious tone as she stood on a roof now hundreds of meters away from the two. Hikaru stood next to her, the bodies of his brain-dead friends Harushi and Ren laid next to him.
Ba Dum. Ba Dum. Ba Dum.
Hasuke's stood mid air right above the glowing moon, his face hidden from the shadow. His right arm extended back, creating a palm clenching as if it held a ball. Suddenly sparks of red erupted around Hasuke, his pupils turning bright red as a bright red glowing sphere starts forming within Hasuke's palm. The red flash illuminated Hasuke's body under the moonlight.
Lucy could clearly see it: Infrared Radiation that was being emitted from Hasuke. The heat was increasing ever so rapidly. She had an Eclipse Eye afterall, she could see things what Humans couldn't.
Hikaru felt a bit awkward as he could feel the immense heat imminenting from Hasuke's body reaching hundreds of meters towards him. A bead of sweat formed on his forehead. However, Hasuke couldn't make out what was happening. Yoru simply smiled at Hasuke's move as she knew what was going to happen.
The red sphere became more pronounced and violent in Hasuke's palm as it crackled with energy. Seeing this, Lucy started running through the streets of Kawagoe and tried hiding in building making sure her speed was fast enough for Hasuke to not see.
And she was right, Hasuke couldn't see her yet. Hasuke smirked as his eyes flashed red brighter a sinister smug forming on his face.
"Electromagnetism:
Thermoreception"
Suddenly, the field of vision for Hasuke became as if he was seeing through an Infrared camera. His eyes moved and scanned the city and he saw Lucy hiding in a building, her figure illuminated by a dark red in a greenish-blue environment. She was approximately 1 kilometer away from Hasuke.
"Kawagoe isn't going to be the same afterwards as I do this," Hasuke comments as a bright red ring formed behind him. Hasuke then brought his palm towards the direction Lucy was hiding and said,
"Electromagnetism:
Infrared Ray Beam"
Zzmm Zzmm
The red crackling sphere made a satisfying wave sound as it glowed brightly and suddenly at zooming speeds, the Infrared Ray Beam shot through his palm, making him recoil a bit as it rapidly approached the spot where Lucy hid. It was wide enough almost the size of Hasuke in width. The town blocks, in the Kawagoe streets, in the path, got absolutely vaporised from the sheer heat of the beam as it's created a massive semi cylindrical crateor, vaporising the rocks and pavements below. Nearby buildings get knocked over and crumble from the sheer power of the technique.
The heat from the beam caused Hikaru and Yoru to start sweating. Hikaru watched in horror and amazement as he saw the true destructive capability of his Professor. The red light being visible to them because Hasuke wanted to show it off to them.
The beam kept cutting and vaporising through multiple town blocks for a kilometre before it reached Lucy who couldn't react it time and suddenly her flesh gets melted as her bones started to vaporise into the beam. She couldn't even scream. This was too much for the eclipse to handle.
The beam started getting more volatile as it started imploding itself in one spot. The beam disconnected from Hasuke's palm as the remaining beam pumped into the volatile core that was present around once the remains of Lucy and then...
Fwwsh~ KA-BOOOOM!
A massive bright red light blinded the entire town, Hikaru and Yoru too. The light reaching even Tokyo from the area. Right after, a massive boom is heard shattering all the windows in Kawagoe and neighboring towns. Hikaru tumbled back and he saw it.
A tremendous glowing red explosive hemisphere that had a radius of definitely 200 meters or more bursted out of the spot that once hid Lucy. All the city blocks, buildings and streets got vaporised in an instant. The explosion rocked the ground in a small earthquake. The heat was melting nearby buildings that weren't in the explosion radius: debris violently flying everywhere.
Hasuke watched in a serious expression as he took in the destructive sight of his technique and his sheer output of Senzai. Hikaru just watched in total respect and fear for his professor. Hikaru could barely break through a few buildings, but his Professor has probably destroyed an entire town or more!
The dome began to disspiate as the shaking of the ground slows down and suddenly the bright red dome disappears. The temperature back to normal as Hikaru focuses towards the impact zone and his jaw practically falls to the floor.
There was simply nothing. A massive circle that existed in place of the bustling small city that was once Kawagoe or a large part of it. It was all vaporised or melted away. The nearby buildings were crumbled down and the ones a few blocks behind them were heavily damaged. All of Kawagoe city centre had been wiped off the face of the earth. Behind the crateor simply existed simmering and fizzing from the remaining heat that slowly faded into the ambience of Kawagoe.
[KAWAGOE DESTRUCTION - Click this paragraph to open up comments and see the destruction image feat]
Chapter 34, end.